Formula 1 Track Walk: Exploring Circuit Gilles Villeneuve with Manor Racing

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Published: June 28, 2016

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MONTREAL — The rhythm and routine of each Formula One race weekend is the same, whether the teams find themselves in Melbourne or Monza, Monaco or Montreal.

This season, the F1 travelling circus will visit 21 different countries, but the general outline of each event is always the same: press conference, practice, practice, press conference, practice, qualifying, press conference, race, press conference. Throw in a few media and sponsor commitments—and perhaps the occasional fashion show or yacht party—and you have a grand prix weekend.

Before all of that, though, before the drivers jump into their cars and begin lapping the circuit at speeds in excess of 300 km/h, comes a ritual known as the track walk.

It is exactly what the name suggests: the drivers and their engineers walk around the entire circuit, giving them a chance to examine the track close-up at low, low speed.

But what exactly goes on during a track walk? How important is it for the drivers, and what are they looking for?

To answer those questions, I joined Mercedes protege Pascal Wehrlein and his Manor Racing team for a stroll around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on a cold, windy Thursday before the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

In fact, it was so cold, and threatening to rain, that the track walk was nearly scuttled before it began. I was waiting in the Manor hospitality unit with Tracy Novak, the team's PR and communications director, when Wehrlein appeared.

The average high temperature for Montreal in June is 23 degrees Celsius, per the World Weather Information Service. As we prepared to walk the 4.361-kilometre circuit, it was just a few degrees warmer than the 5-degree-Celsius race day in October 1978 when Gilles Villeneuve won the inaugural grand prix at the track that would eventually bear his name.

Not the most enticing weather for an hour-long walk.

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